This paper provides the first comprehensive multidisciplinary report of long-term alternative annual no-till cropping systems research in the low-precipitation region of the Pacific Northwest. The objective of the experiment was to evaluate the agronomic and economic feasibility of long-term no-till annual crop production in a typical winter wheat-summer fallow production region. A further objective was to document soil quality changes and benefits that may occur during the transition period from intensively tilled winter wheat-summer fallow to no-till annual cropping.

Publisher: WSU Ext Publishing & Printing
Published: February 2008.   24 pages.